Ottoline Leyser announced as new CEO at UK Research and Innovation
26.05.20 | Eminent plant biologist and long-time science policy advisor will take over from Prof Sir Mark Walport.
more26.05.20 | Eminent plant biologist and long-time science policy advisor will take over from Prof Sir Mark Walport.
more21.05.20 | Historian of Chinese science and technology to receive Germany’s highest research accolade.
14.05.20 | Researchers at our funding organisation Max Planck Society found out that for women, stress and competition is a bad combination.
more07.05.20 | Prof Schuman received the prestigious prize for her work on the neurophysiology of memory.
28.04.20 | The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has been managing AcademiaNet since January 2020, when it took over from the Robert Bosch Stiftung (RBS). Simona Isler, gender equality representative of the SNSF, talks about ideas and plans for the future.
05.12.19 | More women in scientific leadership positions - this is the goal of AcademiaNet, the European database listing outstanding women researchers. As of January 2020, it will be run by the SNSF.
more18.12.18 | The Robert Bosch Foundation (RBS) has founded AcademiaNet and funded the platform from the beginning. They now have to end the funding at a time when AcademiaNet starts to gain momentum. We spoke with Dr Katrin Rehak-Nitsche, Senior Vice President for Science and Research at the RBS, about the situation.
more17.12.18 | Interview with AcademiaNet member Eva-Maria Feichtner
more14.12.18 | Interview with AcademiaNet member Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
more26.11.18 | Roles on the screen largely reinforce the message that scientists are white men.
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